page_title: List of enslaved people
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hierarchical_section_title: List of enslaved people / A
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, called Job ben Solomon (1701-1773) in African dress, with the Qu'ran around his neck
context_page_description: Slavery is a social-economic system under which persons are enslaved: deprived of personal freedom and forced to perform labor or services without compensation. These people are referred to as slaves.
  The following is a list of historical people who were enslaved at some point during their lives, in alphabetical order by first name. Several names have been added under the letter representing the person's last name.
context_section_description: Abdul-Rahman ibn Ibrahima Sori (1762–1829), a prince from West Africa and an enslaved person in the United States for 40 years until President John Quincy Adams freed him.
  Abraham, a black enslaved man who carried messages between the frontier and Charles Town during wars with the Cherokee, for which he was freed.
  Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781), adopted by Russian czar Peter the Great, governor of Tallinn (Reval) (1742–52), general-en-chef (1759–62) for building of sea forts and canals in Russia; great-grandfather of Pushkin. See The Slave in European Art for portraits.
  Absalom Jones (1746 – February 13, 1818), former enslaved man who purchased his freedom, abolitionist and clergyman – first ordained black priest of the Episcopal Church.
  Claudia Acte, mistress of the Roman Emperor Nero.
  Aelfsige, a male cook in Anglo-Saxon England, property of Wynflaed, who left him to her granddaughter Eadgifu in her will.
  Aelus Perseus, a freedman of the late Roman Empire, whom T. Aelius Dionysius included by name on a stela for him, his wife, their freedman and those who came after them.
  Aelstan, an enslaved man in Anglo-Saxon England freed with his wife and all their children (born and unborn) by Geatflæd "for the love of God and the good of her soul".
  Aesop (c. 620–564 BCE), Greek poet and author or transcriber of Aesop's Fables.
  Afak, a Kipchak enslaved girl who was given by Fakhr al-Din Bahramshah, the ruler of Darband, to the poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141—1209). She became the dearly beloved wife of Ganjavi, considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, and the mother of his only son Mohammad. His grief at her premature death was expressed in still widely read poems. It is disputed whether "Afak" (meaning Horizon or Snow White) was her real name or a nickname. In the later case, her name remains unknown.
  Afanasy Grigoriev (1782–1868), Russian serf and Neoclassical architect.
  Afrosinya(1699/1700 – 1748), Russian serf, possibly a Finnish captive, slave mistress of Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia.
  Agathoclia (died ~230), a martyr and patron saint of the town of Mequinenza in Spain.
  Ng Akew (died 1880), famous Chinese businesswoman and smuggler, originally a slave.
  Alam al-Malika (died 1130), enslaved singer who was promoted to become the de facto prime minister, adviser and ruler of the principality of Zubayd in present-day Yemen.
  Jehan Alard (fl. 1580), a French Huguenot who served as a galley slave in Italy, condemned by the Inquisition.
  Alexina Morrison, a fugitive enslaved person in Louisiana who claimed to be a kidnapped white girl and sued her master for her freedom on that ground, arousing such popular feeling against him that a mob threatened to lynch him.
  Alfred "Teen" Blackburn (1842–1951), one of the last living survivors of slavery in the United States who had a clear recollection of it.
  Alfred Francis Russell (1817–1884), 10th President of Liberia.
  Alice Clifton (c. 1772–unknown), as an enslaved teenager, she was a defendant in an infanticide trial in 1787.
  Alick was a man enslaved by John C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States and a firm upholder of slavery. In 1831, Alick ran away when threatened with a severe whipping. Calhoun wrote to his second cousin and brother-in-law, asking him to keep a lookout for Alick, and if he was taken, to have him "severely whipped" and sent back.  When Alick was captured, Calhoun wrote to the captor: "I am glad to hear that Alick has been apprehended and am much obliged to you for paying the expense of apprehending him . . . . He ran away for no other cause, but to avoid a correction for some misconduct, and as I am desirous to prevent a repetition, I wish you to have him lodged in Jail for one week, to be fed on bread and water and to employ some one for me to give him 30 lashes well laid on, at the end of the time. I hope you will pardon the trouble. I only give it, because I deem it necessary to our proper security to prevent the formation of the habit of running away, and I think it better to punish him before his return home than afterwards. Al
caption: Portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo by William Hoare (1733)
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